I recently won second place in a local painting competition with a space wolf model I painted based on your method. And I am really not that experienced a painter. Thanks a lot for these tutorials!

Dude youre killing it with these tutorials. Please by all means keep them coming. Im painting Fists as well, and its really interesting and inspiring to see your methods in such detail.

Tried this out with Word Bearers, and it worked amazing. I used the following paint layers. Stipple Gal-Vorbak red base -> Stipple 1-1 mix Gal Vorbak red/Word Bearers red over the base similar to how you did your zamesi desert layer -> Word Bearers Red -> Contrast Then glazed back up in a similar manner, only difference was adding an even brighter layer of VERY thinned down Wazdakka red on top for a final bolder highlight on the extremes of the model. Fantastic method of painting you've shown and even though they look good on camera this effect looks even better in person.

Another fantastic tutorial! I can't wait to see more work from you!

Absolutely gorgeous!

great videos! like them most above all out there. great job!

There can never be enough Imperial Fists tutorials. Really looking forward to your future contrast videos as I'm eager to see how good that new colour is and I may use on my own army.

Fantastic work as always. Another great tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

Big thank you for producing these tutorials! They are amazing! Keep them coming!

I absolutely love how these came out. Will be picking up a box just to try this out. Great work

Never bored with Fist tutorials! I was curious about that new contrast color as well... can't wait to see it.

Love the effect from hand painted. I especially like the way you did the eyes too, thanks for the video!

These look absolutely smashing. 10/10 mate

Hats off Richard. This is gold 👍

Hello Richard, these tutorials are great. I like how you’re showing different methods, tools ie airbrush,oils, or without, using contrast instead and stippling.

Damn that's gorgeous! I love your eye work especially. Everything pops. Subscribed!

defiantly not getting sick of these they look amazing

wow man they look awesome the hand painted looks a beast.

My son is painting his half of indom as first this week! Thanks for sharing.

Looking forward to trying this technique

That must be the best bang for buck yellow tutorial I've seen!

I love the strategy for yellow used in this! They look great! This actually has me inspired to paint something grimdark yellow, even though Ive got nothing that really wants to be yellow! lol

Thank you very much for this tutorial. My hole army has been painted following this video. 10/10 really useful, quick and easy

Holy moly I swear this video taught me something new just about every single minute. Just extremely inspiring stuff. Going to have to brainstorm ways to apply it to the Alpha Legion I'm starting...

I've watched 5-6 videos today on painting Imperial Fist and your unique technique delivers some truly amazing results. Well done! Thank you for sharing.

As usual high quality tutorial from you. Thanks again sharing your knowledge Richard. I start thinking about painting yellow….🙃 My AoD box arrived yesterday with a Rhino and a Kratos. A lot of stuff to paint and try some new colors. Thanks for the motivation you gain with your videos. Cheers to everyone.

Cant wait to see the new Contrast tutorials !

Amazing stuff and aweseome results! Now, to all people who say they deliberately won't use any oils or enamels or airbrushes: That's fair, but if you can, do yourselves a favour and get these materials. Otherwise, you actively and consciously make work harder and more time-consuming for yourselves without any real benefit. This one is worth stepping out of your comfort zones. The first step may be scary, granted, but once you've got the first little bit of the hang of it, you'll realise that not using those tools and materials is like consciously tying one arm behind your back, with respect to both time and quality. Experiment, take the plunge, and learn. If you can and your finances allow for a half-decent airbrush, do it.

Appreciate the tutorial for the non-airbrush folks. Most hobby painters don't have them.

I love this tutorial. Will try the same stipple method, but with oil washes. Would be great to see how you tackle a tank, either with an airbrush or with regular bruses. Would also be cool to see how you would tackle different legions, to get inspiration for future projects.

Very thorough and approachable tutorial, great work! I struggle with stuff like consistent light indication, so the useful tidbits throughout the video are really valuable. I recently finished a (slightly converted) heresy chaplain, really proud of it, first time i tried NMM (using the Sotek Green actually), to middling degrees of success. For the plume I found a gradient from Screamer Pink up to Evil Sunz Scarlet with some Carroburg Crimson for the inbetween steps works really nicely, especially since I tend to go quite muted with my overall tones and finish. The shading on the yellow armor looks really good, and boy, that Bolter is something else... kinda makes me wanna try ImpFists myself... Once I finish all my other WIPs...

As well as using matte varnish to seal the weathering powder, you can also use a squirt of isopropyl alcohol. It's super important not to touch the model afterwards, as it will strip paint, but a light spray will soak into the pigment, dries fast, and kinda 'soaks into' the paint below helping adhere it.

Another great video 👍🏻

Amazing video man, your techniques are not hard and useful, thanks

Great tutorial thank you for sharing

Great video! And a fantastic result! You sir made painting yellow easy! :) Although im making my age of darkness into Night Lords.. man i can't wait to get my box! :D

Bro is fighting every urge to say "trust the process"

Just became my hands down horus heresy painter to follow and learn from

Hands down best Imperial fist I've ever seen. PlS Pls do a alpha legion version of this process on a model 🙏 sir

Crikey you’re not wrong about having to work fast with the contrast shading/medium stage. I swapped to Shyish purple for my emperors children, following your technique. Was surprised at how quickly I needed to try and shift it! Mixed results for first time haha.

magness mate!! more videos like those last!!! realy realy well and interesting!! you should try all legions!! Thx for it

Really interested in your stippling technique, I tend to try a similar method but using very small fast brush strokes, especially on fabric. Personally I think oils would be much more easy and forgiving than the contrast method. Great tutorial!

I really like your painting style, you had painting lot’s of Space marines now, I would like to see your painting Genstealer maybe in the oldschool colour range. Keep up your good work, I will hope you have the time

I prefer this to the airbrush because the texturing on the armor gives it more character.

I love this style, really unique adds so much character to the normal marines, I know you've done a black templar on here before but I would be really interested on your thoughts or techniques you would use to differentiate between all the black legions in the horus heresy as there's so many black power armour chapters

so wonderful!! so interessing, pls continue to show how to paint if!!! i'm waiting for the tanks im yellow without airbrush and with airbrush!!! and if u can with the white too 💪💪 continue like that

Love these videos! Would love a sons of horus scheme!

these look amazing... i would love to see how you do an alpha legion with the contrast

Thank you! 🔥🎸🔥

Amazing

Great video! I personally love the airbrush method. The new Imperial Fist contrast paint looks like it will be amazing as you say. I have also used Tamiya clear over a metallic zenithal and that works a treat. Richard - have you ever tried using Tamiya panel lining inks on marines? I find they work REALLY well for a super crisp and clean finish if you apply over a layer of varnish.

Richard, conversely to the point of this (& your last) video, I'd be fascinated to see your approach to painting *purely* with oils. hear me out. as someone who evidently has considerable knowledge of colour theory and an intimate and thorough understanding of miniature painting as we of the tabletop would understand it I'd be fascinated for your thoughts on the process

I really enjoyed watching this! Like the other recent Imperial Fists tutorials as well. I‘m a big fan of your bases. Bit sad that the forgeworld pigments aren’t available anymore. Do you by any chance know which of the Vallejo pigments are closest to the look you‘ve got on your models?

Excelent tutorial! Thank you for your job and inspiration! :D I am going to paint Sons of Horus legion, and i would like to use contrast wash method. Should i use some darker contrast paint or Darkoath Flesh will be good?

Love the controlled use of contrast paint that you've done here, and I'm going to be using that with contrast in the future. :) Would the stippled layers of watered down paint be less spotty if you added a drop of dish soap to the mix? Just a thought.

Your videos are a godsend! Thank you for sharing your methods👌 one question, would/do you Matt varnish the entire model at the end or just the base dust area?

Could you do a video or list of colors on how you'd paint a black marine in this style?

Looks good brother are you plan on doing any black vehicles soon try my best to make it interesting without a lot of edge highlights but it's hard to avoid especially on tanks find those very difficult

Would you say this method with the 3 paints followed by Darkoath flesh would work for an EC scheme using something like Phoenician Purple, Xereus Purple, and Genestealer Purple? Fantastic video!

Another great tutorial! Are you planning to do a Space Wolves one at any point?

PLEASE please please explain the base and shade colours you would use to do the brush method on Dark Angels 40k utilising the standard caliban green, warpstone glow and Moot green colours....I am desperate to try your method.

I'd love to try this technique out! Do you have a recommendation for contrast wash to use with purple?

Amazing work, thanks for the tutorial! Can you do emperors children no airbrush tutorial? What colors would you suggest?

I am in love with this style. Been searching for something like this for so long. Question: would you use darkoath for any color scheme or does it only work well with red and yellow? Would you use the same for say green or blue?

Superbe .. I'll be watching this on a loop again. I try to make tutorials myself. But watching your awesome video's is blocking me. Your work and english speaking voice are epic compared to my work and pispoor english pronunciation. 😆

I put mk3 shoulder pads on all my marines from the box set… didn’t realize how much I accidentally added to my work load there

Uhhh yes give me more! ☺️

I can not find the colour ref for Heavy stg. for the imperil fists? So what is it?

I need help! I've been trying to do the stippling and the paint just foams like crazy when I do it. I'm talking bath foam levels here. The ratio is 2:1 water to paint and I've already ruled out the water or the brush as the culprit.

Really enjoyed this. But i dont play imperial fists or blood angels. Could u pls so a warhounds pre woldd eaters marine and or a alpha legion marine 🙏

brilliant as usual. 30k Dark angel next maybe...?

Little bit of threadomancy here, but if you were going to paint a large chunk of models at a time (whole army 40-50, maybe 5-10 at a time) how would you alter your recipe? Would you spend the same amount of time on each guy? or would you cut some corners? Lovely work and I am tempted to go with your color choice for contrast wash (darkoath flesh) over the one I picked up (gharagak's sewer) because the darkoath seems to have a warmer tone to the colder gharagak. Well done boss, lovely paint job!

Should I mix water in base color such as brown and yriel yellow ?

I'd love to see how you paint true metal gold.

So, the pauldrons with the studs are from a different Mk than the ones with the thick riveted trim? Im getting very confused by all the different Mk. of Astartes armour! Like, Im imagining now that different legions are likely to have different Mk armours as well, especially in the 30k Heresy time period? Ugh. Where can I find detailed explanations of which armour is going to be appropriate for each legion?

Could you do a white scars tutorial?

never heard of the black striped head thing? just wondering where you got this from and weather you/someone else could provide sources for how these conventions work on different marines for the imperial fists or any other legions? is this specific to 30k?

What heads did you use for your painted marine?

The bases look great, but wont the powder rub off quite easily with use?

Intresting did you used head from mk IV space marine and glue it on new MK VI body?

Rich earthy, yellow fists you say? NO OILS YOU SAY? *NO AIRBRUSH YOU SAY?*

21:57. How many arms do you have.

Any chance of Emperor's Children here or on your patreon?

May I get a salamanders tutorial please.

could oils be used instead of the contrast paint because I'm worried about the time restraints with the contrast

dude that is fantastic, I think though to the average person referring to this as "tabletop standard" is a bit off the mark eh

Just got these but the decals are horrible, I’m yet to get one down without horrible creases or cracks breaking the models look

Ah damn, I hope you dont leave oils or the airbrush out of your tutorials, I have both and I love using them.

Love the accessibility of this video, but at this point why not use the best method instead of dumbing it down. "Next up, IMPERIAL FISTS - NO BRUSHES NEEDED JUST YO FAT LITTLE FINGIES"

2:55 - 2:58 instantly caused me to click off this video. Take the time to fix your recordings, highly unprofessional.

So, as promised I watched all the way through. 1. Technically this is a very very good video. Sound levels are steady and even. Lighting is good. Camera work always in focus and your presentation must have gone by script because you did not waffle or wonder from the subject. People do not realise how much attention to detail is required to do this. 2. Art work sucked. You chose the most labour intensive painting style that required hours to complete and then whinged it was not as good as an airbrush or as quick. Anyone could take that colour scheme and, using a paint brush, do it in one third of the time. And then you use an undiluted contrast paint to work it in the same fashion as an oil paint and whinge again that the oil paint would have been easier. 3. Look up the definition of a glaze and a wash. Because undiluted contrast paint is not and never was meant to be a wash. You could have used Agrax Earthshade or Griffin Sepia for washes and taken your time in their use and application. The whole point of the video as I gleaned it from the title was how to paint without airbrush and oils. Not how to substitute them. Your yellow glaze was not even close. It was opaque going onto the armour and opaque on the mixing palette. 4. Finally, and I do acknowledge that this part is to taste, but your secondary work like highlight and chipping is flawed. How is it that the highest point of the model, the crest on the helmet does not get light highlights on the flat. It is the highest most exposed part of the model to the light source. In the mean time, why rhinox hide for the chipping. It is getting tiring watching artists decide that battle wear is appropriate on the armour and then show chipping that would suggest rust. Well no, read the lore. The suits are ceramic in nature and the colour of the suit is not painted on but impregnated throughout the suit. There is no metal to rust. Further, this is an elite unit and so their weaponry gets attention daily and after a battle. There is no rust on the barrel because they don't want the weapon to disintegrate in their hand from use. If a modern infantry soldier is used to cleaning and caring for his weapon then monastic monks would be fanatical about it. p.s. The sergeant is not equipped properly. He would not be carrying a heavy bolter. They would be issued to the troopers as it is the sergeant's job to direct their fire and control the balance of the troops. Also he gets to look good with bolt pistol, sword and Marvin the Martian head crest.

Seriously dude? You run a tutorial demonstrating painting techniques that do not require an airbrush where you stipple on heavily watered down paint and lament in the first four minutes at least five times it is not as fast as an airbrush? If you are worried about speed then you could have simply done two parts water to the paint and simply layered the paint onto the model choosing how much of the shade you left. Further you would probably have achieved a smoother finish and more quickly than an airbrush. The point at which I stopped the play was 4:03 and you had just begun to stipple on the yellow. I will watch through because it is as important to see the bad styles as the good ones. But based on the finish from the undercoats I don't hold much hope for the balance of the work.